Joint survey between Corporate Meetings and Incentives and the Incentive Research Foundation finds that while perception issues around incentive travel have decreased, the economy is still driving destination decisions....More

Fully 95 percent of executives are worried about losing their key employees. Which makes sense, since nearly half of top performers reportedly are looking for another job. Can you design incentives that boost not just performance, but loyalty?...More

MetLife’s major strategic change, unifying the company’s U.S. distribution channels, was matched by a major change in its incentive programs for 2011. Seven formerly separate conferences were replaced with The One—a single incentive conference designed to be bigger and better than the field force had ever experienced....More

Our first-ever joint survey with the Incentive Research Foundation on merchandise incentives—concludes that the incentive industry has reached an inflection point—the moment when the trend changes from negative to positive....More

The overall mood among planners at the 13th annual KRIAB, reports Laurel Rhoads McCarthy, CMP, Chicago-based director of sales for Krisam, a membership organization for more than 240 hotels and resorts worldwide, was upbeat but realistic....More

The Incentive Research Foundation, a St. Louis–based not-for-profit organization that funds research into the incentive industry, has identified 11 trends it expects to unfold this year in the performance industry....More